Eli5: Entropy will increase in closed system then how evolution occured and life began in the first place.

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Thermodynamics : Entropy will increase in a closed system.
Evolution : Hold My bear

why tho?!

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First I think it’s that entropy grows in an isolated system, while it can go either way in a closed one. A closed system can have decreasing entropy as long as the total entropy of the universe goes up. Evolution, and every other process that increases the local degree of order, expends energy and doing so the increase in entropy in the universe is greater than the decrease caused by the complexity reached by organisms. Oftentimes these processes accelerate universe entropy so they’re in perfect accordance with the principles of thermodynamics

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